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The article discusses how Great Britain won World War I in 1918. It compares the military leadership of competing generals Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria and British Field Marshal Douglas Haig. Topics include battles along the Western Front, the impact of the Russian Revolution on German politics and military policy, Britain's alliance with France, Germany, Italy and the U.S., the military support of Britain's dominions and colonies, and Germany's call for an armistice.

The article considers the responses of British soldiers to the armistice of World War I, using their writings detailing their responses to peace and their return to civilian life after war. It considers how many soldiers had mixed feelings about the announcement, differences in reactions between those on the front lines and civilians, demobilization, and anti-war sentiment in the post-war period.

Focuses on political activities in the U.S. related to the First World War. Speculations regarding better understanding between the British and U.S. governments with regards to agreement of peace among the Allies at war from the projected visit of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to Great Britain; Insight into the differences between the two with respect to the Soviet Union; Demand that Germany should be placed last as far as food aid from the U.S. is concerned.

Ever since the publication of the resolutions of the Paris Conference, regarding an economic "war after the war," the question of the commercial and industrial relations between the Allied nations and the Central Powers after the peace has been increasingly discussed. In England, where the need for raw materials and shipping is joined to fear of "dumping" and "penetration," the discussion of the subject has been particularly active. The Committee on Commercial and Industrial Policy after the World War I, appointed in July 1916, under the chairmanship of Lord Balfour of Burleigh, made public last May, through the Ministry of Reconstruction, a report which goes further in its indication of necessary restrictions. The committee on the iron and steel trades recommend that, in order to restore the trade to "something like its old position," the importation of iron and steel manufactured products from present enemy countries be prohibited "during the period of reconstruction," and that no raw materials be sent to present enemy countries from any of the British Dominions.

Focuses on the possibility of waging war as an effective sanction to end the conflict between Great Britain and Italy as discussed in the League of Nations Conference held in London, England. Implications of the reluctance of France and other European states to take part in the conflict; Propaganda of Great Britain for the enlistment of American people in the impending struggle; View of the American people on the European situation.

Focuses on the Ruhr issue between England and France. View that as an issue between England and France, the Ruhr is immediately a matter of economics, ultimately a matter of security; Report that England can live only by what she picks out of the current of world trade; Diminution of this current from the dismemberment of Austria-Hungary and the reversion of the succession states to an economy of isolation; Report that the security for England depends on the political status of the lands across the Channel and the North Sea; View that if French policy in the Ruhr results in the dismemberment of Germany it must inevitably restore in England the old feeling that France is the hereditary enemy; View that a Franco-British conflict is not an impossibility, on the contrary, it is a probability, if the French push their Ruhr policy to the point of German collapse; Report that it was American intervention that placed the Allies in a position to dictate the terms of peace; View that it is time for the U.S. to reconsider her responsibilities to Europe.

Focuses on the peace measures to stop the ongoing World War II. View that apparent acceptance of the idealistic peace aims after the World War I had helped to determine the American partisanship and had been the formal cause of its entry into the World War II; View that some of the aims which were embodied in the peace, like self-determination of small nationalities, subsequently bedeviled Europe; Report that the whole economic power of the U.S. is now being mobilized behind Great Britain; Considerations for attacking the problem of stopping the war; View that these considerations need to be broken down into a prediction of the needs and powers of a democratic society in the United States, efficiently producing and distributing its wealth, fostering a great culture, making full use of science and other resources of the mind; Information on the outlines of a peace based on these considerations.